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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: su to root
Date: 10 Mar 1996 11:30:57 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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kmon@execpc.com (Kenneth Monville) writes:
> I recently installed freebsd2.1. I am trying to su to root from my user
> account. When I type 'su' it says im in the wrong group to su to root. I
> checked the man page and it said the user must be in group 0 or 'wheel'
> which it is. I even added a new user with the login group of wheel or 0,
> still no luck. Also manually edited /etc/groups to have the user in all
> the same groups as root, with no luck. Any help appreciated.
The login group is not of interest. You need to mention your user
here:
wheel:*:0:root,user
^^^^
The format is picky. No spaces are allowed.
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